Key Steps To your website traffic future
Article Marketing is a excellent way to get free Search engine traffic. The key is having a solid article marketing plan. You need to set a goal of writing and submitting at least one article per week to have any impact on your website traffic. You must follow through and stick to your guns and make sure you publish the number articles you have set in your plan for each month.
My article marketing plan calls for to write and submit 1 article per week for my fishing site, now some weeks I write more, but never less than 1 per week. One article may not sound like a lot but you are building links with these articles that will last a lifetime. Also quality and respectability are strong factors when writing articles. If you don’t have a goal to recognized as a expert in your selected “niche” then don’t bother with article marketing.
Also article marketing is not a quick hit marketing technique that will get you 1000’s of hits to your website. Your traffic will grow gradually over time. There are no guarantees on how much website traffic you will receive but I can guarantee that the traffic you do receive will be highly targeted and that is best kind of website traffic you can receive. Just for example I have been using my article marketing plan for approximately two years now. My plan has been very successful and I have doubled my sales through my fishing site over this time.
I have identified below some key steps you can use to develop your own marketing plan.
#1. Identify your “niche” market. Do not waste your time starting to write articles until you have completed this step. The more specific you are when you identify what you want to write about the better success you will have.
#2. Create a keyword, keyword phrase list of at least 50 keyword phrases. The more specific you can be with your phrases the more website traffic you will generate to your website. I do not recommend you start out targeting single keywords, select keyword phrases about your niche that are two and three words in length. Concentrate on using keyword phrases that are two and three words in length. To be honest with you I have never done very well with single keywords in my articles. It has been my experience that single keywords do not score high for me on the search engines. To develop your keyword phrase list go to Google AdWords and use their free keyword tool. It is an excellent marketing tool. Type in a single keyword that is associated with your “niche” market. AdWords will generate a list of two and three keyword phrases for you. Make sure you download or copy this list for future use when you are writing your articles.
#3. Start writing articles that use some of the keyword phrases from your list . I typically will focus on using three different phrase for each article. As a rule of thumb I try to write articles that concentrate on three keyword phrases. Each new article I write concentrates on 3 new keyword phrases or a variation of existing ones I have used. When you are writing your articles make sure that you do not repeat your keyword phrase but every 100 words. For example, if I were going to write an article that included “crappie fishing” in my first paragraph , then I could not repeat this phrase for 100 words. There are some twists you could use like mixing it up and instead of using “crappie fishing you could use “crappie angling” Its up to you. Just don’t repeat the same phrase in a 100 word count, the search engines penalize you for doing so and your article will not score well. Remember concentrate on the quality of your article when inserting keyword phrase. It’s important that you get the attention of the reader.
#4. Your next and final step is creating and developing a good article directory list to submit your articles too. All article directories are not created equal so I suggest you use the following simple steps list the sites you want to submit to in a priority by Google ranking sequence. To get a listing of directories just do a search using the key word “article directory” as your search term. You will get a list of thousands of sites. There are two sites you must put on your list right now and they are EzineArticles.com and Searchwarp.com. Now to prioritize these sites for my list, I use a free website ranking tool that works great for this application. Just go to Google and do a search using the keyword phrase “Google website ranking tools” this should bring up a list of sites that offer this tool. Or you can contact me and I send you the link to the tool I use. Concentrate your list on rankings of “6″,”5″,”4″,”3″ . Article directories with these rankings will get you the most website traffic.
Now your ready to start article marketing!
Good Luck In your efforts, Sincerely Mark Fleagle.
